Justin Trudeau

It was a different sort of WE day in Ottawa, as the charity’s co-founders appeared before the House finance committee. Here’s what you need to know.

The Kielburgers along with former board chair Michelle Douglas will answer questions about WE Charity’s agreement with the Liberal government

Paul Wells: Unless we understand how the government decided to team up with WE, we can’t be sure such things won’t happen again

Andrew MacDougall: Another ethics investigation is hanging over the PM. At some point, the Liberals will realize they’re being led by a dead man walking. 

Paul Wells: There is a notion, apparently widespread, in the political alumni club that on some key issues we don’t actually have a prime minister.

KC Hoard: Pride parades, when stripped to their most core elements, are public acts of resistance against the powers that continue to limit queer people’s rights

While the Meng case reveals a major fault line among Canadian thinkers, a second group has written to Trudeau urging the PM to defend the rule of law

How a letter from a superbly-connected group of Canadians happened and aimed to pressure the Prime Minister into releasing Meng Wanzhou

Paul Wells: Believing a win at the UN would fall from the heavens on Trudeau because he wasn’t Harper was an expression of the narcissism and shallowness that have characterized this government during much of its time in office

Paul Wells: Trudeau’s Liberals sense opportunity in the current crisis. Their track record with ’innovation’ suggests another reality: complex problems are a slog.